Shake it Shake it Shake it dont stop!

Today is all about Boy Stories...so here's another... That Boy has always been a mover and and a shaker...in-utero he did front flips just about every waking moment... well now we know he was practicing flip turns for swim... those flip turns made his mother (ME) uncomfortable... constantly... so when I had had enough I would stand feet hip width apart and shake my belly like a go-go dancer while chanting "Shaken Baby Syndrome" ...I suppose it stunned him, because he'd stop flipping for a few minutes... My daddy HATED when I did that, hed say "Stop doing that you are gonna make that boy a fool" ... 2 seconds ago · Cincinnati, OH

The Miracle of Birth

12-2-13 today is Spen2s 11th birthday... I thought I would take some time to regale you with stories surrounding the circumstances of his birth... Which is pretty funny given I had be deemed unable to conceive @1992... So, in January 2002 I am sitting in the Este Conference Center @ Sunday Morning Worship Service with New Beginning Covenant Church. Pastor Teresa was on FIRE that day...I believe that that sermon topic may have been "2002, Its Your year!" I accepted that thing and believed it. What it meant to me was that in 2002 our business, Cuisines Catering, was going to BLOW UP in 2002... see, the business was my baby! You will soon understand why I always say "God has Jokes". January went well. My friend Jeff Harris helped me land a big contract that I'd coveted for years... we were balling shot --calling... then March... boom we hit a wall. In April, my beloved Grandmother, Blanche Teresa Taggart (ala Blanche's All-Butter Pound Cake) had a stroke ...she passed away... I was devastated.. and I was SICK... Every piece of fried chicken someone brought by the house was clearly old or too greasy... I drank ginger ale after ginger ale, but I was still sick. I get home to Cincinnati I am still sick ... clearly its me...Im thinking, I know its April, but, I have the FLU... I call my sister, Cheryl Wilson, the nurse BS-RN to be exact. She wasnt convinced I had the flu... she says "Jackie, do me a favor, before you go to the doctor, take a pregnancy test...they are going to probably make you take one anyway"... Aaargh, resentful. I go buy the dang thing...the Walgreens brand...the cheapest one on the shelf. One thing a woman unable to conceive doesnt want to invest in is a reminder that she is, in fact, unable to conceive. I Go home, take the test... before I can sit it on the counter... POSITIVE... what?? Now that just made me really mad.. If you can make a pregnancy test have a false positive, you have SERIOUS issues... I tell my mother...Im sobbing, shes laughing... I said "this cheap test, false positive, just makes me feel bad" .. She shows up 15minutes later (thats my mama) with a bag full of EXPENSIVE EPT... One after the other... positive. Now I am nervous. When Spencer comes home, I dont even say anything... Hes watching the game in the basement... I go down and say... hey, look at this... show him 3 positive sticks. These things say I am pregnant....his response...clasic Spencer... "No SHI@??!!" Fast forward defying ALL odds I deliver a PERFECT 8 lb 5oz baby boy on 12/2/02 at 1:31pm. So now its January 2003, I am in the Estes Center with Spen2 is in his little pumpkin seat on the floor... Pastor T says "its Your Year"... I was surly thought to myself "thats what you said last year, and my business is in shambles right now... worse than ever" THEN GOD SAID.... "Who ever said anything about your business? I said 2002 was your year...that you were going to be blessed beyond measure.... AND LOOK WHAT I HAVE DONE!!!!" He caused my eyes to look down upon my most FABULOUS son....Perfect in every way.... At that moment I repented and realized the meaning of the scripture that says Gods ways are not our ways.... translation: "Gods Got Jokes" Happy Birthday, my son, 2002 was definitely MY year, and every single one since... Mommy loves you! (yep, I dont care if hes nearly as tall as me and that is voice is changing....Im still his mommy, hhhmph)